"... a country now noted for absurdities, ironies and mind-boggling happenings." - Adwoa Yeboah-Afari, veteran journalist, in THE MIRROR of Friday, February 14, 2014. Pg. 6.

Mr. Peter Horrocks, Director of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Global News on Friday said the late Komla Afeke Dumor, BBC Television Focus on Africa Presenter, was a great journalist whose works attest to that.

Kumasi -JUST WHEN the Ghanaian media fraternity was drawing the curtains down on weeks of mourning and wailing following the death of the ace Ghanaian BBC Broadcaster, Komla Afeke Dumor, another Kumasi-based presenter lost his life on Saturday.

The Motor Traffic and Transport Department of the Ghana Police Service has reportedly been beating its chest on how much it has contributed to the Consolidated Fund in the last three years.

It is not for nothing that the Umbrella faithful fondly refer to her as Ama Chavez. Within the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Ms. Ama Benyiwa-Doe is seen by the party footsoldiers as one of the hatchet men and women in the party. Like the President of Venezuela, who has the potent force for attacking the West, Ms. Benyiwa-Doe was perceived in her party as someone who could stand up to the Kufuor regime when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was in power. She was a powerful force on radio, spewing

Takoradi -Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, optometry, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers. It refers to the work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health.

A candidate for the position of treasurer for New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Kwabena Abankwa-Yeboah has called on the party's national delegates to give him their mandate, come April 12, 2014, since he has the wherewithal and the requisite managerial skills to manage the finance of the party.

Trede-Ash -NANA OSEI Yaw, a Manager at the Sunyani branch of the Vanguard Life Assurance has sworn the oath of allegiance to Nana Osei Kofi I, chief of Sabin Akrofrom and his elders in the Atwima Kwanwoma district of Ashanti Region as the newly installed Kyidomhene of the community.

THE DISTRICT Health Center at Mamponteng in the Kwabre district of Ashanti Region lacks adequate health personnel thus increasing the work load of the few and affecting quality health delivery at the facility.

PAN AFRICAN Clergy Council and Bible Seminary, an international institution with accreditation from United States of America (USA) has conferred an honorary Doctor degree of divinity on Rev. Elvis Kwadwo Sarpong, Old Tafo district Pastor and Head Pastor of True Worshipers Assemblies of God.

The Action Aid Programme Manager, Mr. George Dery, has announced that a research into marriage by abduction in three districts in the Upper West Region has revealed that it is influenced by culture beliefs, poverty and societal pressure.

Accra -It may be Anita de So-soo's own ingenuous means of explaining away a very serious national problem. But the theory of seven dwarfs siphoning money from the Bank of Ghana and causing the cedi to fall, could only come from a mind not well tuned to serious affairs of state, making an uninformed statement about the serious business of state finances and igniting a national debate on the powers of dwarfs and the spiritual world.

Kumasi -STUDENT NURSES of the Kumasi Nursing Training and Midwifery School (KNMTS) and others from the Korle-Bu Nursing Training school who undertake their practical at the two leading teaching hospitals are complaining about consumable fees being introduced by Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.

Koforidua -The Annual Health Report of the Eastern Region has revealed that the region recorded 115 maternal deaths in 2012.

The prosecutor in charge of the trial of the ex-police officer, Anthony Forson, who allegedly killed four persons at the coronation of a chief, Nana Essel VI, at Ekumfi Esarkyir in the Central Region, has once again asked the court to give more time to conduct investigation into the matter.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has handed over a GH¢400,000 edifice to the Institutional Capacity Building of Civil Service Training Centre (CSTC) to enhance civil service training in the country, and among Anglophone countries in the West Africa sub-region.

"Kalabule" is a loaded word in Ghana's political history. It signifies the decade between 1972 and 1982 when our country seemed to be spiraling from crisis to crisis and most Ghanaians had lost confidence in our public institutions.

Kumasi -THE FAMILY of Suwaiba Abdul Mumin, the mother whose alleged dead baby is at the centre of the controversy, has officially broken their silence over what they say are some deliberate distortions by management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).

Dressed in sagging white apparel, a self-acclaimed dancehall king, Shatta Wale blurted out that Ghana's music industry is "bomboclat" - a Jamaican term for foolish. And he got the crowd gathered at Korlegonor beach to gleefully recite the rant with him.

Tamale -THE PARAMOUNT Chief of the Wungu Traditional Area, Wungu Naba Alhaji Saaka Sulemana, has banished Mr. Fuseini Bawa, a resident, and his entire household of 23 from their residence at Kukuazugu, a suburb of Walewale in the West Mamprusi District of the Northern Region. The chief is alleged to have also confiscated five houses (one residential house and four other uncompleted houses belonging to the victim), as well as his two boutiques. This comes on the heels of several allegations being